jueves, enero 08, 2015

On Thursday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest announced that
the Obama administration would prioritize fighting Islamophobia in the
aftermath of the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in France. Never mind that most Westerners aren’t Islamophobic, but rather GettingShotInTheFaceForExpressingMyOpinion-Phobic.

The real problem, according to the Obama administration, is lack of leadership in defending Islam:

There are some individuals that are using a peaceful
religion and grossly distorting it, and trying to use its tenets to
inspire people around the globe to carry out acts of violence. And we
have enjoyed significant success in enlisting leaders in the Muslim
community, like I said, both in the United States and around the world
to condemn that kind of messaging, to condemn those efforts to
radicalize individuals, and to be clear about what the tenets of Islam
actually are. And we’re going to redouble those efforts in the days and
weeks ahead.

This, of course, is not the first time the Obama administration has
discovered a duty to illuminate the inherent beauty and wonder of Islam.
Over and over again, the Obama administration, in high culturally
imperialist dudgeon, has attempted to explain to the world the true
meaning of Islam.

Here are five other examples:

President Obama, 2009: Immediately upon taking office, Obama did an interview with Al-Arabiya
in which he explained that his job as president encompassed apologizing
to the Muslim world for evil America, and explaining to Americans that
Muslims are the cream of the religious crop:

My job is to communicate to the American people that the
Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live
their lives and see their children live better lives. My job to the
Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy.

If you forgot the provision of Article II of the Constitution that
gives the president the authority to do outreach on behalf of Islam in
the United States, that’s because it doesn’t exist. But don’t worry:
Obama’s on the job.

President Obama, 2009: In speaking about Islam at Cairo University on June 4, 2009 – a speech to which the Obama administration invited the then-banned Muslim Brotherhood – Obama stated:

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming
to the region where it was first revealed. That experience guides my
conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on
what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my
responsibility as President of the United States to fight against
negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

If you forgot the provision of Article II of the Constitution that
places responsibility for fighting negative stereotypes of Islam in the
hands of the executive branch, that’s because it doesn’t exist. But
don’t worry: Obama’s on the job.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, 2010: Speaking
with Al-Jazeera, the head of NASA explained that the mission of the
space agency would now include outreach to Muslims:

When I became the NASA Administrator, [President Obama]
charged me with three things. One, he wanted me to help re-inspire
children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand
our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he
wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much
more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their
historic contribution to science, math and engineering.

If you forgot the provision of the National Aeronautics and Space Act
that grants authority to NASA to make Muslims feel good about medieval
contributions to astronomy, that’s because it doesn’t exist. But don’t
worry: Obama’s on the job.

President Obama, 2012: In the aftermath of the
murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, President Obama took to the
podium of the United Nations to condemn a YouTube filmmaker in the
United States exercising freedom of speech:

[A] crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout
the Muslim world. Now, I have made it clear that the United States
government had nothing to do with this video, and I believe its message
must be rejected by all who respect our common humanity. It is an insult
not only to Muslims, but to America as well — for as the city outside
these walls makes clear, we are a country that has welcomed people of
every race and every faith. We are home to Muslims who worship across
our country. We not only respect the freedom of religion, we have laws
that protect individuals from being harmed because of how they look or
what they believe. We understand why people take offense to this video
because millions of our citizens are among them….The future must not
belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.

If you forgot the provision of the First Amendment to the
Constitution that gives the president of the United States the authority
to officially criticize exercise of First Amendment rights under color
of authority, that’s because it doesn’t exist. But don’t worry: Obama’s
on the job.

Secretary of State John Kerry, 2014: Last year, as ISIS released video after video of the beheadings of Westerners, Secretary of State Kerry explained that his mission was to promote true Islam – which makes perfect sense, given his status as imam of Martha’s Vineyard:

[Our effort] has to start major efforts to delegitimize
ISIS’s claim to some religious foundation for what it’s doing and begin
to put real Islam out there and draw lines throughout the region.

If you forgot the provision of Article II that lends authority to the
State Department to “begin to put real Islam out there,” presumably in
violation of the separation of church and state, that’s because it
doesn’t exist. But don’t worry: Obama’s on the job.

Even as the Obama administration pretends to push “true Islam,” the
Obama administration completely ignored the words of Egyptian leader
General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who just days ago called for a “religious
revolution” in the Muslim world. Al-Sisi explained:

I say and repeat, again, that we are in need of a
religious revolution. You imams are responsible before Allah. The entire
world is waiting on you. The entire world is waiting for your word …
because the Islamic world is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is
being lost. And it is being lost by our own hands….It’s inconceivable
that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire
Islamic world to be a source of anxiety, danger, killing and destruction
for the rest of the world. Impossible that this thinking — and I am not
saying the religion — I am saying this thinking. This is antagonizing
the entire world. It’s antagonizing the entire world! Does this mean
that 1.6 billion people (Muslims) should want to kill the rest of the
world’s inhabitants — that is 7 billion — so that they themselves may
live? Impossible!

Al-Sisi seems significantly more qualified to lead an educational
effort about Islam than Barack Obama. But for the Obama administration
to recognize the truth of al-Sisi’s statement would suggest that their
own ignorance about Islam has prevented them from effecting change for
the past six years. And that is an admission that President Obama and
his lackeys refuse to make, given their deeply held belief that Islam
isn’t the problem in any way.

martes, noviembre 18, 2014

“They tell us you have abandoned
us and/or don’t care but of course we know you are doing everything you
can and more,” Abdul-Rahman Kassig, born Peter Kassig, wrote to his parents, Ed and Paula,
when he had been held by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham for
several months. He knew that his captors might kill him—“it may very
well be coming down to the wire here”—and in the end they did: over the
weekend, ISIS released a video of a member of the group
displaying Kassig’s severed head. He was twenty-six years old, and from
Indiana. In the letter, he’d sought to prepare his parents for that end,
and, perhaps, to forestall the visions they might have of his last
moments: “Don’t worry Dad, if I do go down, I won’t go thinking anything
but what I know to be true. That you and mom love me more than the moon
& the stars.”

Kassig was kidnapped delivering medical aid to people affected by the civil war in Syria. He had been a soldier, a Ranger in Iraq, then a college student, and, very briefly, a husband.
(The marriage ended in divorce.) Along the way, he took classes to
learn to be an emergency medical technician.* On a vacation to Lebanon,
where he encountered Syrian refugees, he realized that his medical
knowledge was an asset, a gift he could hand to desperate people. Just
before he was supposed to go home, he had, as he wrote in an e-mail to family and friends,
“the best conversation that I have ever had with my mom. From 4,000
miles away in a shelled out parking lot in Beirut I told her about what I
had been involved in over the last week.” He had found his “calling”:

Yesterday
my life was laid out on a table in front of me. With only hours left
before my scheduled flight back to the United States, I watched people
dying right in front of me. I had seen it before and I had walked away
before.… I’m just not going to turn my back this time, it’s as simple as
that.

viernes, noviembre 14, 2014

100 years ago today, the last Caliph, or
emperor of Islam, declared the last Jihad against the infidel-- and
today is the first time ever that the National Cathedral in the nation's
capital will host Muslim prayers.

Most American's will have no idea that, as
part of World War I, the then-Caliph of the Ottoman empire declared a
Holy War against infidels, as was his right within sharia law and
Islamic theology. You can read the full fatwa here (ignore the date of 1915 which is an original typo).

That statement by the last sitting head of what was the theocratic empire of Islam was the catalyst which led to religiously-fueled genocide against Christian Armenians and Assyrians.

The Episcopal church leaders who agreed to
the host Muslim prayers inside the Washington cathedral probably have no
idea what happened a century ago in Asia Minor, or that there even was a
Caliph in office at the beginning of the 20th century.

However, we can rest assured that the
co-organizers do, for they include the Council on Islamic Relations
(CAIR), The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), The Muslim Public
Affairs Council (MPAC) and the All-Dulles Area Muslims Society (ADAMS)
Center.

Both CAIR and ISNA will be fully aware of the
significance of November 14th, seeing as both organizations were
declared by a federal court to be unindicted co-conspirators of Hamas,
the Muslim Brotherhood terror group, in the largest terrorist financing trial in US history.

Those muslims who have a supremacist
understanding of their religion, such as members of Al Qaeda and the
Muslim Brotherhood - which was recently declared an illegal terrorist
organization in the country of its founding, Egypt - have a special
regard for historic dates and anniversaries.

It is, of course, no accident that the 9/11
attacks, the worst terror attacks in world history, occurred exactly to
the day in 1683 when the Islamic Ottoman forces were defeated outside
the city walls of Vienna, the deepest the Islamic Caliphate's forces
made it into the heart of the Christian West.

There is nothing inherently wrong about
interfaith initiatives as long as they start from the same place: a
mutual respect for the belief system of the other, and their inherent
dignity as humans created by God. When one party acts in bad faith based
upon its ideological commitment to see other faiths destroyed or
subjected, then the event runs the risk of becoming a propaganda coup
for the extremists and their followers.

We know that the Episcopal church is in trouble with more conservative believers leaving in great numbers and
the remaining adherents not exactly outdoing their Catholic cousins in
terms of reproducing the next generation of believers. But I doubt they
also understand the finer points of jihadist doctrine, one of which is
that if a place of worship is used by Muslims for their prayers, that
territory subsequently becomes part of Dar al Islam, sacred muslim land.
Forever.

Sebastian Gorka PhD is the Major General
Matthew C. Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at the Marine
Corps University, and national security and foreign affairs editor at
Breitbart.com. You can follow him on Twitter at: @SebGorka.

lunes, noviembre 03, 2014

Our children are our world as parents. They are the future of our
nation. Most of us would gladly sacrifice all we have and our lives for
our little ones. So, why do we so readily hand their learning and their
care over to those that would abuse them and trick them into being part
of the greatest evil the world has ever known? It figures that the
young, innocent ones would be a prime target for Islam and are what they
term, ‘fertile ground’ for their broken philosophy. Between such
programs as Common Core, Connect All Schools and CSCOPE,
CAIR has been ensuring that the textbooks that teach our children go
out of their way to teach Islamic history and to have the children
indoctrinated into Islam. CAIR has even gotten textbooks in private
schools, charter schools and home schooling programs to include their
revisionist history.

The Islamization of the curriculum and the school room itself in American schools is thoroughly covered by Pamela Geller at Atlas shrugs in her book: Stop the Islamization of America. Do buy and read the book and then home school your children after
reviewing their ordered teaching materials. You should not be surprised
either that Qatar is heavily vested in all this – they fund Connect All
Schools and Common Core. On October 24th and 25th,
hundreds of schools, leadership teams, and teachers from across the
region gathered in Dubai, to learn about the Common Core State
Standards, share curricula and best practices, and network with each
other. Ask yourselves, why Dubai? Surely, Bill Gates and Jeb Bush know,
since they are helping to fund it as well. They are very cozy with the
Islamic states – all that money and power – motivation for selling out
our children and country many times over.

Across America, in over 100 schools now, in Social Studies and World
History classes, the proselytizing for Islam is being pushed and hard.
It does not include the 1,400 year history of Jihadi wars, land
appropriations, cultural genocide and enslavement, not to mention the
extermination of the entire Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe of Arabia, as
Pamela Geller puts it. What it does include, and what I find infuriating
beyond words, is the Shahada and the Five Pillars of Islam. The Shahada
is an Islamic creed declaring belief in the oneness of God and the
acceptance of Muhammad as God’s prophet. It is recited to convert
someone to Islam. That’s right… they are actively converting your
children to their religion. Now, how do you feel about it? Then the
little ones are forced to learn the Five Pillars of Islam.

jueves, septiembre 25, 2014

Approximately 2.5 million immigrants from “predominantly Muslim
countries" reside inside the U.S. right now, a new report from the
Center for Immigration Studies found.

The four-page report, which details which countries and world regions
from which immigrants in the U.S.—both legal and illegal—came to this
country, found that since 2000 nearly a million more immigrants from
such Muslim countries came to the U.S.

In 2000, there were 1,518,755 immigrants from Muslim countries in the
U.S. In 2010, That number stood at 2,184,664, and in 2013 it stands at
2,480,407.

Between 2010 and 2013, there was actually a greater increase in the
number of immigrants from the Middle East than from Central America.
During that timeframe, 207,758 more immigrants moved to the U.S. from
the Middle East, whereas only 113,744 immigrants came from Central
America.

The report found that despite the staggering growth of immigration
from the Middle East, the regions that sent even more immigrants to the
U.S. in the past few years are South Asia, East Asia, and the Caribbean.
South Asia, which includes India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, sent 372,546
more immigrants to the U.S. between 2010 and 2013, whereas East
Asia—which includes China, Korea and Vietnam—sent 364,909 more
immigrants to the U.S. during that timeframe. From the Caribbean,
223,011 more immigrants entered the U.S. between 2010 and 2013.

During that same timeframe, immigration from Mexico dropped 126,126.
In 2010, there were 11,711,103 immigrants both illegal and legal in the
U.S. from Mexico, according to this data set, and in 2013 there were
just 11,584,977 immigrants from Mexico in the U.S.

The report, authored by Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler from CIS, relies on U.S. census data to make these observations.

"The data show that the nation’s immigrant population (legal and
illegal) grew by 1.4 million from July 2010 to July 2013,” Camarota and
Zeigler wrote. “The data also imply that 3.3 million new immigrants
settled in the country in that same period. These new arrivals were
offset by return migration and deaths among the existing population. The
immigrant population, referred to as the foreign-born by the Census
Bureau, includes all those who were not U.S. citizens at birth,
including illegal immigrants.”

Between legal and illegal immigrants residing in the U.S., the
authors found that America’s immigration population “hit a record 41.3
million in July 2013.”

On Wednesday, on the first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s
speech to the United Nations in which he called for ouster of Syrian
dictator Bashar Assad, Obama attempted to rally support for his
airstrikes against Assad’s terrorist opposition. Taking on issues
ranging from Iran to Russia, from Ukraine to Syria, from global warming
to Ebola, Obama pledged to utilize American might in service to the
United Nations, speaking grandly of the beauty and power of the world’s
least effective and most morally bankrupt international institution.

Obama opened with a Dickensian world of Manichean opposites:

Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General,
fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: we come together at a crossroads
between war and peace; between disorder and integration; between fear
and hope.

He then offered delegates a choice between paper and plastic.

Actually, he stated that the world has never been better off,
praising the increase of member states at the UN and the decrease in
poverty (neglecting, of course, that that decrease in poverty is a
direct result of the rise of global capitalism), as well as the iPhone.
“I often tell young people in the United States that this is the best
time in human history to be born, for you are more likely than ever
before to be literate, to be healthy, and to be free to pursue your
dreams,” Obama said, apparently forgetting the last two decades of human
history.

But, said Obama, there are a few problems with which we have to
contend: Ebola, Russian aggression, “brutality of terrorists” in Syria
and Iraq. And those problems, Obama continued, are “symptoms of a
broader problem – the failure of our international system to keep pace
with an interconnected world.” Incredibly enough, the rise of disease,
Obama believes, is because we haven’t invested enough in the United
Nations, not because incompetent regimes upheld by the UN have failed
their people. In amazingly hypocritical fashion, Obama – a man elected
on the basis of his undercutting of George W. Bush’s Iraq war, a war
based almost entirely on enforcement of UN resolutions -- said that
terrorism has flourished because “we have failed to enforce
international norms when it’s inconvenient to do so.”

Obama said America chooses “hope over fear.”

According to Obama, that choice entails standing up to Russia –
presumably, by doing nothing. Obama stated that Russia’s worldview was
that “might makes right,” that their vision was of a “world in which one
nation’s borders can be redrawn by another, and civilized people are
not allowed to recover the remains of their loved ones because of the
truth that might be revealed.” Obama then contrasted that vision with
America’s:

America stands for something different. We believe that right makes
might – that bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones;
that people should be able to choose their own future.

Right, of course, does not make might. To believe in that vision is
idiotic. Right must build might in order to enforce right. But Obama’s
unceasing belief in the power of his own verbiage means that he thinks
he can simply talk Russia into backing off:

We call upon others to join us on the
right side of history – for while small gains can be won at the barrel
of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support
the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.

Obama went on to suggest that Russia should use “the path of
diplomacy and peace,” citing our signing of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Russia has been routinely cheating.
“That’s the kind of cooperation we are prepared to pursue again,” Obama
said.

To which Vladimir Putin has formally responded: “ROFLMAO.”

Obama then turned to Ebola, stating that we’re sending troops to West
Africa; he turned to Iran, where he said that “we can reach a solution
that meets your energy needs while assuring the world that your program
is peaceful.”

To which the mullahs have formally responded: “LOLWUT.”

Obama next addressed China’s aggression in the South China Sea,
suggesting that America will insist “that all nations abide by the rules
of the road, and resolve their territorial disputes peacefully,
consistent with international law.”

To which China has formally responded: “SMDH.”

Then Obama went on his world-beating rant: he said that America would
help “eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.” Not through capitalism, mind
you: through foreign aid. He said that America would cut our own carbon
emissions. He spouted trite slogans: “On issue after issue, we cannot
rely on a rule-book written for a different century. If we lift our eyes
beyond our borders – if we think globally and act cooperatively – we
can shape the course of this century as our predecessors shaped the
post-World War II age.”

Finally, he turned to the actual pressing issue of the day,
Islamic terrorism. And he proceeded to explain that Islam is a religion
of peace, no different from any other, and defend his reactive foreign
policy as somehow proactive.

I have made it clear that America will
not base our entire foreign policy on reacting to terrorism. Rather, we
have waged a focused campaign against al Qaeda and its associated forces
– taking out their leaders, and denying them the safe-havens they rely
upon. At the same time, we have reaffirmed that the United States is not
and never will be at war with Islam. Islam teaches peace. Muslims the
world over aspire to live with dignity and a sense of justice. And when
it comes to America and Islam, there is no us and them – there is only us, because millions of Muslim Americans are part of the fabric of our country.

He stated that America rejected “any suggestion of a clash of
civilization.” Our opponents have not done the same, of course. But
Obama stated that we could fight those “religiously motivated fanatics” –
fanatics who have nothing to do with Islam, of course, even if they are
universally Muslim – by providing food and water and jobs. Obama’s
Marxist foreign policy has never wavered: he believes that inequality,
not religious conflict, lies at the root of Islamist enmity for the
West.

Obama laid out a four-pronged plan for fighting terrorism.

First, he said that ISIL had to be “degraded, and ultimately
destroyed.” And once again, he emphasized that ISIL was not Islamic, and
once again, he ruled out utilizing American troops.

Second, Obama said that Muslim communities had to “explicitly,
forcefully, and consistently reject the ideology of al Qaeda and ISIL.”
In the process, he praised Islam as part of a family of religions that
“accommodate devout faith with a modern, multicultural world,” and added
that “All religions have been attacked by extremists from within at
some point, and all people of faith have a responsibility to lift up the
value at the heart of all religion: do unto thy neighbor as you would
have done unto you.”

His solution: talking about how ISIL and al Qaeda and Boko Haram are
bad. Obama’s faith in words is absolutely unshakeable, as he made clear:
“The ideology of ISIL or al Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it
is consistently exposed, confronted, and refuted in the light of day.”
Hilariously, Obama explained that the UN Security Council would pass a
resolution about combating “violent extremism,” but refused to explain
what steps would actually be taken to do so, instead putting that
discussion off for “next year.”

There is nothing new about wars within
religions. Christianity endured centuries of vicious sectarian conflict.
Today, it is violence within Muslim communities that has become the
source of so much human misery. It is time to acknowledge the
destruction wrought by proxy wars and terror campaigns between Sunni and
Shia across the Middle East. And it is time that political, civic and
religious leaders reject sectarian strife. Let’s be clear: this is a
fight that no one is winning.

Flipping through his trusty rhetorical playbook, Obama neglected any
realistic solution to these sectarian conflicts, but did come up with
this hackneyed chestnut:

Cynics may argue that such an outcome can
never come to pass. But there is no other way for this madness to end –
whether one year from now or ten. Indeed, it’s time for a broader
negotiation in which major powers address their differences directly,
honestly, and peacefully across the table from one another, rather than
through gun-wielding proxies. I can promise you America will remain
engaged in the region, and we are prepared to engage in that effort.

Fourth, Obama proposed, Arab and Muslim countries had to focus on
“the extraordinary potential of their people – especially the youth.” He
said that young Muslims “come from a great tradition that stands for
education, not ignorance; innovation, not destruction; the dignity of
life, not murder. Those who call you away from this path are betraying
this tradition, not defending it.” That is the same message Obama and
his minions have been braying for years at this point. No one,
apparently, is listening.

And then Obama dropped the other shoe. After spending fifteen minutes
blabbering about the glories and wonders of Islam, even as he decried
extremism and sectarianism, Obama proceeded to blame Israel for conflict
in the Middle East:

Leadership
will also be necessary to address the conflict between Palestinians and
Israelis. As bleak as the landscape appears, America will never give up
the pursuit of peace. The situation in Iraq, Syria and Libya should cure
anyone of the illusion that this conflict is the main source of
problems in the region; for far too long, it has been used in part as a
way to distract people from problems at home. And the violence engulfing
the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard
work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and
Gaza is not sustainable. We cannot afford to turn away from this effort –
not when rockets are fired at innocent Israelis, or the lives of so
many Palestinian children are taken from us in Gaza. So long as I am
President, we will stand up for the principle that Israelis,
Palestinians, the region, and the world will be more just with two
states living side by side, in peace and security.

The Israelis may not be the “main source of problems in the region,”
but by pressuring Israel before the entire world just weeks after Hamas
continuously fired rockets into Israel and shielded its own rockets with
children, Obama demonstrates his distaste for the Jewish State, and his
desire to cast them as a bleeding abscess leading to more violence. The
moral equivalence here was stunning, unjustifiable, and purely
disgusting.

As Obama moved toward his conclusion, he finally turned inward, apologizing for America yet again:

I realize that America’s critics will be
quick to point out that at times we too have failed to live up to our
ideals; that America has plenty of problems within our own borders. This
is true. In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and
Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American
city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a
community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic
tensions. And like every country, we continually wrestle with how to
reconcile the vast changes wrought by globalization and greater
diversity with the traditions that we hold dear.

Ferguson? Really? This is just the latest incident in which President
Obama has condemned a private citizen before the world. In 2012, it was
a filmmaker who guilty of provoking Islamic rage; today, it’s Officer
Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, who has provoked America’s racial
conflict. The United Nations has become a wonderful place for President
Obama to convict American citizens.

Obama concluded with his campaign stump speech:

After nearly six years as President, I
believe that this promise can help light the world. Because I’ve seen a
longing for positive change – for peace and freedom and opportunity – in
the eyes of young people I’ve met around the globe. They remind me that
no matter who you are, or where you come from, or what you look like,
or what God you pray to, or who you love, there is something fundamental
that we all share.

America shares virtually nothing with the other member states at the
UN. But President Obama shares a lot with them: a desire for America to
take a secondary role in the world affairs, a desire for Israel to
surrender in the face of its enemies, a desire for talk rather than
action, a desire to demean the United States on the global stage.

On Wednesday, on the first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s
speech to the United Nations in which he called for ouster of Syrian
dictator Bashar Assad, Obama attempted to rally support for his
airstrikes against Assad’s terrorist opposition. Taking on issues
ranging from Iran to Russia, from Ukraine to Syria, from global warming
to Ebola, Obama pledged to utilize American might in service to the
United Nations, speaking grandly of the beauty and power of the world’s
least effective and most morally bankrupt international institution.

Obama opened with a Dickensian world of Manichean opposites:

Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General,
fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: we come together at a crossroads
between war and peace; between disorder and integration; between fear
and hope.

He then offered delegates a choice between paper and plastic.

Actually, he stated that the world has never been better off,
praising the increase of member states at the UN and the decrease in
poverty (neglecting, of course, that that decrease in poverty is a
direct result of the rise of global capitalism), as well as the iPhone.
“I often tell young people in the United States that this is the best
time in human history to be born, for you are more likely than ever
before to be literate, to be healthy, and to be free to pursue your
dreams,” Obama said, apparently forgetting the last two decades of human
history.

But, said Obama, there are a few problems with which we have to
contend: Ebola, Russian aggression, “brutality of terrorists” in Syria
and Iraq. And those problems, Obama continued, are “symptoms of a
broader problem – the failure of our international system to keep pace
with an interconnected world.” Incredibly enough, the rise of disease,
Obama believes, is because we haven’t invested enough in the United
Nations, not because incompetent regimes upheld by the UN have failed
their people. In amazingly hypocritical fashion, Obama – a man elected
on the basis of his undercutting of George W. Bush’s Iraq war, a war
based almost entirely on enforcement of UN resolutions -- said that
terrorism has flourished because “we have failed to enforce
international norms when it’s inconvenient to do so.”

Obama said America chooses “hope over fear.”

According to Obama, that choice entails standing up to Russia –
presumably, by doing nothing. Obama stated that Russia’s worldview was
that “might makes right,” that their vision was of a “world in which one
nation’s borders can be redrawn by another, and civilized people are
not allowed to recover the remains of their loved ones because of the
truth that might be revealed.” Obama then contrasted that vision with
America’s:

America stands for something different. We believe that right makes
might – that bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones;
that people should be able to choose their own future.

Right, of course, does not make might. To believe in that vision is
idiotic. Right must build might in order to enforce right. But Obama’s
unceasing belief in the power of his own verbiage means that he thinks
he can simply talk Russia into backing off:

We call upon others to join us on the
right side of history – for while small gains can be won at the barrel
of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support
the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.

Obama went on to suggest that Russia should use “the path of
diplomacy and peace,” citing our signing of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Russia has been routinely cheating.
“That’s the kind of cooperation we are prepared to pursue again,” Obama
said.

To which Vladimir Putin has formally responded: “ROFLMAO.”

Obama then turned to Ebola, stating that we’re sending troops to West
Africa; he turned to Iran, where he said that “we can reach a solution
that meets your energy needs while assuring the world that your program
is peaceful.”

To which the mullahs have formally responded: “LOLWUT.”

Obama next addressed China’s aggression in the South China Sea,
suggesting that America will insist “that all nations abide by the rules
of the road, and resolve their territorial disputes peacefully,
consistent with international law.”

To which China has formally responded: “SMDH.”

Then Obama went on his world-beating rant: he said that America would
help “eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.” Not through capitalism, mind
you: through foreign aid. He said that America would cut our own carbon
emissions. He spouted trite slogans: “On issue after issue, we cannot
rely on a rule-book written for a different century. If we lift our eyes
beyond our borders – if we think globally and act cooperatively – we
can shape the course of this century as our predecessors shaped the
post-World War II age.”

Finally, he turned to the actual pressing issue of the day,
Islamic terrorism. And he proceeded to explain that Islam is a religion
of peace, no different from any other, and defend his reactive foreign
policy as somehow proactive.

I have made it clear that America will
not base our entire foreign policy on reacting to terrorism. Rather, we
have waged a focused campaign against al Qaeda and its associated forces
– taking out their leaders, and denying them the safe-havens they rely
upon. At the same time, we have reaffirmed that the United States is not
and never will be at war with Islam. Islam teaches peace. Muslims the
world over aspire to live with dignity and a sense of justice. And when
it comes to America and Islam, there is no us and them – there is only us, because millions of Muslim Americans are part of the fabric of our country.

He stated that America rejected “any suggestion of a clash of
civilization.” Our opponents have not done the same, of course. But
Obama stated that we could fight those “religiously motivated fanatics” –
fanatics who have nothing to do with Islam, of course, even if they are
universally Muslim – by providing food and water and jobs. Obama’s
Marxist foreign policy has never wavered: he believes that inequality,
not religious conflict, lies at the root of Islamist enmity for the
West.

Obama laid out a four-pronged plan for fighting terrorism.

First, he said that ISIL had to be “degraded, and ultimately
destroyed.” And once again, he emphasized that ISIL was not Islamic, and
once again, he ruled out utilizing American troops.

Second, Obama said that Muslim communities had to “explicitly,
forcefully, and consistently reject the ideology of al Qaeda and ISIL.”
In the process, he praised Islam as part of a family of religions that
“accommodate devout faith with a modern, multicultural world,” and added
that “All religions have been attacked by extremists from within at
some point, and all people of faith have a responsibility to lift up the
value at the heart of all religion: do unto thy neighbor as you would
have done unto you.”

His solution: talking about how ISIL and al Qaeda and Boko Haram are
bad. Obama’s faith in words is absolutely unshakeable, as he made clear:
“The ideology of ISIL or al Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it
is consistently exposed, confronted, and refuted in the light of day.”
Hilariously, Obama explained that the UN Security Council would pass a
resolution about combating “violent extremism,” but refused to explain
what steps would actually be taken to do so, instead putting that
discussion off for “next year.”

There is nothing new about wars within
religions. Christianity endured centuries of vicious sectarian conflict.
Today, it is violence within Muslim communities that has become the
source of so much human misery. It is time to acknowledge the
destruction wrought by proxy wars and terror campaigns between Sunni and
Shia across the Middle East. And it is time that political, civic and
religious leaders reject sectarian strife. Let’s be clear: this is a
fight that no one is winning.

Flipping through his trusty rhetorical playbook, Obama neglected any
realistic solution to these sectarian conflicts, but did come up with
this hackneyed chestnut:

Cynics may argue that such an outcome can
never come to pass. But there is no other way for this madness to end –
whether one year from now or ten. Indeed, it’s time for a broader
negotiation in which major powers address their differences directly,
honestly, and peacefully across the table from one another, rather than
through gun-wielding proxies. I can promise you America will remain
engaged in the region, and we are prepared to engage in that effort.

Fourth, Obama proposed, Arab and Muslim countries had to focus on
“the extraordinary potential of their people – especially the youth.” He
said that young Muslims “come from a great tradition that stands for
education, not ignorance; innovation, not destruction; the dignity of
life, not murder. Those who call you away from this path are betraying
this tradition, not defending it.” That is the same message Obama and
his minions have been braying for years at this point. No one,
apparently, is listening.

And then Obama dropped the other shoe. After spending fifteen minutes
blabbering about the glories and wonders of Islam, even as he decried
extremism and sectarianism, Obama proceeded to blame Israel for conflict
in the Middle East:

Leadership
will also be necessary to address the conflict between Palestinians and
Israelis. As bleak as the landscape appears, America will never give up
the pursuit of peace. The situation in Iraq, Syria and Libya should cure
anyone of the illusion that this conflict is the main source of
problems in the region; for far too long, it has been used in part as a
way to distract people from problems at home. And the violence engulfing
the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard
work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and
Gaza is not sustainable. We cannot afford to turn away from this effort –
not when rockets are fired at innocent Israelis, or the lives of so
many Palestinian children are taken from us in Gaza. So long as I am
President, we will stand up for the principle that Israelis,
Palestinians, the region, and the world will be more just with two
states living side by side, in peace and security.

The Israelis may not be the “main source of problems in the region,”
but by pressuring Israel before the entire world just weeks after Hamas
continuously fired rockets into Israel and shielded its own rockets with
children, Obama demonstrates his distaste for the Jewish State, and his
desire to cast them as a bleeding abscess leading to more violence. The
moral equivalence here was stunning, unjustifiable, and purely
disgusting.

As Obama moved toward his conclusion, he finally turned inward, apologizing for America yet again:

I realize that America’s critics will be
quick to point out that at times we too have failed to live up to our
ideals; that America has plenty of problems within our own borders. This
is true. In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and
Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American
city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a
community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic
tensions. And like every country, we continually wrestle with how to
reconcile the vast changes wrought by globalization and greater
diversity with the traditions that we hold dear.

Ferguson? Really? This is just the latest incident in which President
Obama has condemned a private citizen before the world. In 2012, it was
a filmmaker who guilty of provoking Islamic rage; today, it’s Officer
Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, who has provoked America’s racial
conflict. The United Nations has become a wonderful place for President
Obama to convict American citizens.

Obama concluded with his campaign stump speech:

After nearly six years as President, I
believe that this promise can help light the world. Because I’ve seen a
longing for positive change – for peace and freedom and opportunity – in
the eyes of young people I’ve met around the globe. They remind me that
no matter who you are, or where you come from, or what you look like,
or what God you pray to, or who you love, there is something fundamental
that we all share.

America shares virtually nothing with the other member states at the
UN. But President Obama shares a lot with them: a desire for America to
take a secondary role in the world affairs, a desire for Israel to
surrender in the face of its enemies, a desire for talk rather than
action, a desire to demean the United States on the global stage.

On Wednesday, on the first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s
speech to the United Nations in which he called for ouster of Syrian
dictator Bashar Assad, Obama attempted to rally support for his
airstrikes against Assad’s terrorist opposition. Taking on issues
ranging from Iran to Russia, from Ukraine to Syria, from global warming
to Ebola, Obama pledged to utilize American might in service to the
United Nations, speaking grandly of the beauty and power of the world’s
least effective and most morally bankrupt international institution.

Obama opened with a Dickensian world of Manichean opposites:

Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General,
fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: we come together at a crossroads
between war and peace; between disorder and integration; between fear
and hope.

He then offered delegates a choice between paper and plastic.

Actually, he stated that the world has never been better off,
praising the increase of member states at the UN and the decrease in
poverty (neglecting, of course, that that decrease in poverty is a
direct result of the rise of global capitalism), as well as the iPhone.
“I often tell young people in the United States that this is the best
time in human history to be born, for you are more likely than ever
before to be literate, to be healthy, and to be free to pursue your
dreams,” Obama said, apparently forgetting the last two decades of human
history.

But, said Obama, there are a few problems with which we have to
contend: Ebola, Russian aggression, “brutality of terrorists” in Syria
and Iraq. And those problems, Obama continued, are “symptoms of a
broader problem – the failure of our international system to keep pace
with an interconnected world.” Incredibly enough, the rise of disease,
Obama believes, is because we haven’t invested enough in the United
Nations, not because incompetent regimes upheld by the UN have failed
their people. In amazingly hypocritical fashion, Obama – a man elected
on the basis of his undercutting of George W. Bush’s Iraq war, a war
based almost entirely on enforcement of UN resolutions -- said that
terrorism has flourished because “we have failed to enforce
international norms when it’s inconvenient to do so.”

Obama said America chooses “hope over fear.”

According to Obama, that choice entails standing up to Russia –
presumably, by doing nothing. Obama stated that Russia’s worldview was
that “might makes right,” that their vision was of a “world in which one
nation’s borders can be redrawn by another, and civilized people are
not allowed to recover the remains of their loved ones because of the
truth that might be revealed.” Obama then contrasted that vision with
America’s:

America stands for something different. We believe that right makes
might – that bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones;
that people should be able to choose their own future.

Right, of course, does not make might. To believe in that vision is
idiotic. Right must build might in order to enforce right. But Obama’s
unceasing belief in the power of his own verbiage means that he thinks
he can simply talk Russia into backing off:

We call upon others to join us on the
right side of history – for while small gains can be won at the barrel
of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support
the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.

Obama went on to suggest that Russia should use “the path of
diplomacy and peace,” citing our signing of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Russia has been routinely cheating.
“That’s the kind of cooperation we are prepared to pursue again,” Obama
said.

To which Vladimir Putin has formally responded: “ROFLMAO.”

Obama then turned to Ebola, stating that we’re sending troops to West
Africa; he turned to Iran, where he said that “we can reach a solution
that meets your energy needs while assuring the world that your program
is peaceful.”

To which the mullahs have formally responded: “LOLWUT.”

Obama next addressed China’s aggression in the South China Sea,
suggesting that America will insist “that all nations abide by the rules
of the road, and resolve their territorial disputes peacefully,
consistent with international law.”

To which China has formally responded: “SMDH.”

Then Obama went on his world-beating rant: he said that America would
help “eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.” Not through capitalism, mind
you: through foreign aid. He said that America would cut our own carbon
emissions. He spouted trite slogans: “On issue after issue, we cannot
rely on a rule-book written for a different century. If we lift our eyes
beyond our borders – if we think globally and act cooperatively – we
can shape the course of this century as our predecessors shaped the
post-World War II age.”

Finally, he turned to the actual pressing issue of the day,
Islamic terrorism. And he proceeded to explain that Islam is a religion
of peace, no different from any other, and defend his reactive foreign
policy as somehow proactive.

I have made it clear that America will
not base our entire foreign policy on reacting to terrorism. Rather, we
have waged a focused campaign against al Qaeda and its associated forces
– taking out their leaders, and denying them the safe-havens they rely
upon. At the same time, we have reaffirmed that the United States is not
and never will be at war with Islam. Islam teaches peace. Muslims the
world over aspire to live with dignity and a sense of justice. And when
it comes to America and Islam, there is no us and them – there is only us, because millions of Muslim Americans are part of the fabric of our country.

He stated that America rejected “any suggestion of a clash of
civilization.” Our opponents have not done the same, of course. But
Obama stated that we could fight those “religiously motivated fanatics” –
fanatics who have nothing to do with Islam, of course, even if they are
universally Muslim – by providing food and water and jobs. Obama’s
Marxist foreign policy has never wavered: he believes that inequality,
not religious conflict, lies at the root of Islamist enmity for the
West.

Obama laid out a four-pronged plan for fighting terrorism.

First, he said that ISIL had to be “degraded, and ultimately
destroyed.” And once again, he emphasized that ISIL was not Islamic, and
once again, he ruled out utilizing American troops.

Second, Obama said that Muslim communities had to “explicitly,
forcefully, and consistently reject the ideology of al Qaeda and ISIL.”
In the process, he praised Islam as part of a family of religions that
“accommodate devout faith with a modern, multicultural world,” and added
that “All religions have been attacked by extremists from within at
some point, and all people of faith have a responsibility to lift up the
value at the heart of all religion: do unto thy neighbor as you would
have done unto you.”

His solution: talking about how ISIL and al Qaeda and Boko Haram are
bad. Obama’s faith in words is absolutely unshakeable, as he made clear:
“The ideology of ISIL or al Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it
is consistently exposed, confronted, and refuted in the light of day.”
Hilariously, Obama explained that the UN Security Council would pass a
resolution about combating “violent extremism,” but refused to explain
what steps would actually be taken to do so, instead putting that
discussion off for “next year.”

There is nothing new about wars within
religions. Christianity endured centuries of vicious sectarian conflict.
Today, it is violence within Muslim communities that has become the
source of so much human misery. It is time to acknowledge the
destruction wrought by proxy wars and terror campaigns between Sunni and
Shia across the Middle East. And it is time that political, civic and
religious leaders reject sectarian strife. Let’s be clear: this is a
fight that no one is winning.

Flipping through his trusty rhetorical playbook, Obama neglected any
realistic solution to these sectarian conflicts, but did come up with
this hackneyed chestnut:

Cynics may argue that such an outcome can
never come to pass. But there is no other way for this madness to end –
whether one year from now or ten. Indeed, it’s time for a broader
negotiation in which major powers address their differences directly,
honestly, and peacefully across the table from one another, rather than
through gun-wielding proxies. I can promise you America will remain
engaged in the region, and we are prepared to engage in that effort.

Fourth, Obama proposed, Arab and Muslim countries had to focus on
“the extraordinary potential of their people – especially the youth.” He
said that young Muslims “come from a great tradition that stands for
education, not ignorance; innovation, not destruction; the dignity of
life, not murder. Those who call you away from this path are betraying
this tradition, not defending it.” That is the same message Obama and
his minions have been braying for years at this point. No one,
apparently, is listening.

And then Obama dropped the other shoe. After spending fifteen minutes
blabbering about the glories and wonders of Islam, even as he decried
extremism and sectarianism, Obama proceeded to blame Israel for conflict
in the Middle East:

Leadership
will also be necessary to address the conflict between Palestinians and
Israelis. As bleak as the landscape appears, America will never give up
the pursuit of peace. The situation in Iraq, Syria and Libya should cure
anyone of the illusion that this conflict is the main source of
problems in the region; for far too long, it has been used in part as a
way to distract people from problems at home. And the violence engulfing
the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard
work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and
Gaza is not sustainable. We cannot afford to turn away from this effort –
not when rockets are fired at innocent Israelis, or the lives of so
many Palestinian children are taken from us in Gaza. So long as I am
President, we will stand up for the principle that Israelis,
Palestinians, the region, and the world will be more just with two
states living side by side, in peace and security.

The Israelis may not be the “main source of problems in the region,”
but by pressuring Israel before the entire world just weeks after Hamas
continuously fired rockets into Israel and shielded its own rockets with
children, Obama demonstrates his distaste for the Jewish State, and his
desire to cast them as a bleeding abscess leading to more violence. The
moral equivalence here was stunning, unjustifiable, and purely
disgusting.

As Obama moved toward his conclusion, he finally turned inward, apologizing for America yet again:

I realize that America’s critics will be
quick to point out that at times we too have failed to live up to our
ideals; that America has plenty of problems within our own borders. This
is true. In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and
Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American
city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a
community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic
tensions. And like every country, we continually wrestle with how to
reconcile the vast changes wrought by globalization and greater
diversity with the traditions that we hold dear.

Ferguson? Really? This is just the latest incident in which President
Obama has condemned a private citizen before the world. In 2012, it was
a filmmaker who guilty of provoking Islamic rage; today, it’s Officer
Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, who has provoked America’s racial
conflict. The United Nations has become a wonderful place for President
Obama to convict American citizens.

Obama concluded with his campaign stump speech:

After nearly six years as President, I
believe that this promise can help light the world. Because I’ve seen a
longing for positive change – for peace and freedom and opportunity – in
the eyes of young people I’ve met around the globe. They remind me that
no matter who you are, or where you come from, or what you look like,
or what God you pray to, or who you love, there is something fundamental
that we all share.

America shares virtually nothing with the other member states at the
UN. But President Obama shares a lot with them: a desire for America to
take a secondary role in the world affairs, a desire for Israel to
surrender in the face of its enemies, a desire for talk rather than
action, a desire to demean the United States on the global stage.

jueves, mayo 22, 2014

The American Embassy in
Prague is financing a new project aimed at promoting Islam in public
elementary and secondary schools across the Czech Republic.
The new law removes the requirement that there must be a special
reason to sue for defamation or insult. Swedish thought police will be
able to prosecute anyone who expresses an opinion about Muslim
immigration and much else if that opinion is deemed to be defamation or
slander. The Swedish government is also spending 60 million krona ($9
million) to boost voter turnout in Muslim neighborhoods.
"The influx of immigrants is reaching biblical proportions. Italy is
fighting a losing battle." — Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi, Head of the
Italian Navy

Before
and After: Left, German rapper Denis Cuspert in 2005, then known as
"Deso Dogg". Right, Cuspert as jihadist in Syria, in 2013, operating
under the alias "Abu Talha Al-Almani" [Abu Talha the German]. (Image
sources: Wikimedia Commons, ISIS)

In Austria, police
say they believe that two teenage girls who vanished from their homes in
the capital of Vienna on April 10 may be in Turkey, and that whoever
helped them get there is using them as pin-up girls to boost recruitment
efforts for the "holy war" in Syria.

Friends
of Samra Kesinovic, 16, and Sabina Selimovic, 15, said the girls had
become radicalized after attending a local mosque run by a Salafist
preacher, Ebu Tejma, and learning about the duty of every Muslim to
participate in jihad. The girls were expelled from school after
inscribing "I Love Al-Qaeda" on tables and walls.

But
the girls' parents—originally Bosnian refugees who settled in Austria
after the ethnic conflicts of the 1990s—say that messages and
photographs posted on social media networks which claim that the girls
are on the front line and fighting with their new husbands are fake.

sábado, marzo 15, 2014

The counter-jihad website Creeping Sharia reported Monday
that “according to a Facebook post, Somali staffers that work at
Minneapolis City Hall declared February 28 ‘Hijab Day’ at City Hall and
convinced the police chief and female city council reps to wear hijabs
on the job.”

The idea originated
with female Muslim City Hall employees, who then cajoled non-Muslim
women into participating in Hijab Day as well. One enthusiastic
participant was a Muslim woman named Ilhan Omar, who is on the staff of
Minneapolis City Council Member Andrew Johnson. Omar recently instigated a brawl at a Democratic caucus meeting in Cedar-Riverside, leading to several injuries and the cancellation of the meeting.

Pictures depicted Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau and several
female City Council members, all smiling and wearing hijabs. Why? Is
there wear a kippah day? A Sikh turban day? A Christ on the cross day? A
Wiccan witch day? What’s next? Slaughter a live animal and let it bleed
out for lunch day? Inshallah!

This is imposing Islam in Minneapolis. This is dhimmitude on
steroids. A municipality celebrating “Hijab Day” is a violation of the
establishment clause. The dhimmi Chief Harteau ought to be fired.

The hijab is a political statement, not a religious mandate. Mark Steyn says in his book America Alone that
“there is no evidence that any Muslim woman anywhere ever wore the
jilbab before the disco era, when it was taken up by the Muslim Brotherhood and others in the Arab world. It is no more ancient and traditional than platform shoes, bell bottoms, and cheesecloth shirts.”

And “celebrating” Hijab Day is a political statement.

The Minneapolis officials could have more accurately called it
Misogyny Day, as the hijab is a call to women and girls to cover up and
hide their femininity. It is offensive, and it is misogynistic. The
message to women: Hide who you are, because savages cannot control their
carnal appetites! Do it and like it! Embrace the hate! Celebrate the
most extreme, brutal and misogynistic ideology on the face of the earth!

More notably, Police Chief Janeé Harteau is a homosexual.
“Celebrating” the symbol of a virulently anti-gay ideology is the height
of cluelessness and/or self-loathing. Gays under the sharia are
persecuted, oppressed and executed. Over at my newsite Atlas Shrugs, I
run weekly, sometimes daily, news stories of gays getting beaten,
whipped or killed under Islamic law. And Police Chief Janeé Harteau is
celebrating this? Why hasn’t Harteau joined us in condemning the Muslim
oppression of gays under the Sharia? No, instead she bullies her
division into wearing this garment of oppression.

The fault, however, doesn’t lay solely with these Janeé Harteau and
her friends. In his submission speech in Cairo in 2009, Barack Obama said:
“Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to
practice one’s religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state in
our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That’s why the
United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women
and girls to wear the hijab and to punish those who would deny it.”

But the women who really need protection are not Muslimas who are
wearing hijabs – who is bothering them? The real problem is the women
around the world, including non-Muslims, who have been threatened and
even killed for not covering their heads, including Aqsa Parvez who was
murdered by her father and brother for not wearing her hijab; Amira Osman Hamid, the Sudanese woman who took off her hijab and was sentenced to be flogged for doing so; and Amira, the young girl in Egypt who killed herself after she refused to wear the hijab and her family beat her.

Arab American News reported that the last recorded dispute between
Michigan honor-killing victim Jessica Mokdad and her stepfather Rahim
Alfetlawi, who killed her, was over the wearing of the hijab,
which he originally forced her to wear. Jessica didn’t want to wear it,
thereby bringing shame on him and the family. Macomb County Assistant
Prosecutor Bill Contaldo said: “He thought she was becoming too
Westernized. I think this was a very nice young lady wanting to
experiment with Western culture without control and without abuse.” The Detroit Free Press
reported: “Mokdad’s mother told police that Alfetlawi felt so shamed by
her daughter’s Western ways. He killed her in an honor killing, Warren
Police Sgt. Stephen Mills said.”

The Mokdad honor killing was covered up, although I exposed the facts about it at my AFDI/SIOA Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference
on honor killing and Islamic law on April 29, 2012 in Dearborn,
Michigan. Probably Janeé Harteau never heard of Jessica Mokdad. But
Hijab Day at the Minneapolis City Hall is monstrous in light of the fate
of girls like Jessica and Aqsa Parvez.

And it’s not just a few fanatical fathers: last September, according to AFP,
an Al-Qaeda group in Syria said that girls in areas it controlled would
not be allowed to attend school unless they wore “Islamic clothing” –
that is, the hijab (at least). These things aren’t happening only in
Muslim countries: in February 2013, South Australia’s biggest Islamic
school warned both Muslim and non-Muslim teachers that they would be fired if they didn’t wear hijab to school functions.

miércoles, enero 15, 2014

In December, two new studies, one funded by the German government, found that the majority of Muslims believe that Islamic Sharia law should take precedence over the secular constitutions and laws of their European host countries.
"Critics of Islamic ideology and its organizations are constantly confronted with lawsuits and have to legally defend themselves against the accusations of blasphemy or incitement-to-hatred. Even if it does not come to a conviction, such processes cost a lot of time and money…Thus... we are experiencing a de facto application of Islamic law." — Felix Strüning, Gustav Stresemann Foundation Report.
"[It] must be recognized: democracies must beware of those who believe a free society is something that needs to be vanquished." — Die Welt.

What follows is a chronological review of some of the most important stories about the rise of Islam in Germany during 2013:

In January, the Turkish-run Kuba Camii Mosque in Eschweiler, a city situated along the German-Belgian-Dutch border and about 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Cologne, for the first time began publicly calling Muslims to prayer.

The call to prayer was described as an "historical event" and was attended by numerous dignitaries, including the Turkish consul and the Turkish attaché.

The Turkish imam of the Kuba Camii Mosque, Bahri Ciftci, declared his hopes that "the public prayer call will be a symbol of a tolerant, intercultural and interreligious common coexistence."

The mayor of Eschweiler, Rudi Bertram, said, "Tolerance must be practiced on a daily basis. We are all responsible for ensuring that there is a co-existence."

The mosque is one of a growing number of Islamic institutions in Germany publicly calling the Muslim faithful to prayer—five times a day, seven days a week—with cries of Allahu Akbar! ("Allah is Greater!").

The sonorous prayer calls (known in Arabic as adhan) can be heard from great distances when amplified through electric loudspeakers. Critics say some German towns and cities are beginning to evoke the sounds and images of the Islamic Middle East.

On January 14, the City-State of Bremen signed a so-called state treaty with city's 40,000-strong Muslim community. The agreement guarantees the protection of Muslim community properties, the approval of the construction of mosques with minarets and domes, the allotment of land for Muslim cemeteries, the supplying of halal food at prisons and hospitals, the recognition of three Muslim holidays, Muslim representation in state institutions and several other rights and privileges.

According to Erol Pürlü, the spokesman of the Koordinationsrat der Muslime [Muslim Coordination Council], a Turkish-Muslim umbrella group, the treaty with Bremen "sends a clear signal that Islam belongs to Germany."

Bremen is the second German state to sign a treaty with local Muslim communities. Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, concluded a "historic treaty" with the city's 200,000-strong Muslim community in November 2012.

Critics say the agreements do little to encourage Muslim integration into German society and instead will boost the growing influence of Islam in the country by encouraging the perpetuation of a Muslim parallel society.

Also in January, a court in Berlin convicted two Islamists of being members of al-Qaeda and sentenced them to a combined 15 years in prison.

jueves, octubre 31, 2013

"I want London to stand alongside Dubai and Kuala Lumpur as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world." — David Cameron, Prime Minister, Great Britain.
But critics say that British ambitions to attract investments from Muslim countries, companies and individuals are spurring the gradual establishment of a parallel financial system based on Islamic Sharia law. The Treasury also said some sukuk Islamic bond issues may require the government to restrict its dealings with Israeli-owned companies in order to attract Muslim money.

The London Stock Exchange will be launching a new Islamic bond index in an effort to establish the City of London as one of the world's leading centers of Islamic finance.

Britain also plans to become the first non-Muslim country to issue sovereign Islamic bonds, known as sukuk, beginning as early as 2014.

The plans are all part of the British government's strategy to acquire as big a slice as possible of the fast-growing global market of Islamic finance, which operates according to Islamic Sharia law and is growing 50% faster than the conventional banking sector.

Although it is still a fraction of the global investment market -- Sharia-compliant assets are estimated to make up only around 1% of the world's financial assets -- Islamic finance is expected to be worth £1.3 trillion (€1.5 trillion; $2 trillion) by 2014, a 150% increase from its value in 2006, according to the World Islamic Banking Competitiveness Report 2012-2013, published in May 2013 by the consultancy Ernst & Young.

But critics say that Britain's ambitions to attract investments from Muslim countries, companies and individuals are spurring the gradual establishment of a parallel global financial system based on Islamic Sharia law.

British Prime Minister David Cameron announced the plans during a keynote speech at the ninth World Islamic Economic Forum, which was held in London from October 29-31, the first time the event has ever been held outside the Muslim world.

"Already London is the biggest center for Islamic finance outside the Islamic world," Cameron told the audience of more than 1,800 international political and business leaders from over 115 countries.

"And today our ambition is to go further still. Because I don't just want London to be a great capital of Islamic finance in the Western world, I want London to stand alongside Dubai and Kuala Lumpur as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world."

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